Happiness: Lessons from a New Science Paperback - 2006
by Layard, Richard
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- Paperback
From the great guru of the interdisciplinary field of happiness studies comes a fascinating statement: happiness, in fact, is a measurable human state. In his new handbook, he examines the keys to achieving happiness and why, on a societal level people have grown wealthier but no happier over the past 30 years.
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- Title Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
- Author Layard, Richard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used:Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2006-06-27
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0143037013
- ISBN 9780143037019 / 0143037013
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.9 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Happiness
- Dewey Decimal Code 170
Summary
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average incomes have more than doubled.
The central question the great economist Richard Layard asks in Happiness is this: If we really wanted to be happier, what would we do differently? First we'd have to see clearly what conditions generate happiness and then bend all our efforts toward producing them. That is what this book is about-the causes of happiness and the means we have to effect it.
Until recently there was too little evidence to give a good answer to this essential question, but, Layard shows us, thanks to the integrated insights of psychology, sociology, applied economics, and other fields, we can now reach some firm conclusions, conclusions that will surprise you. Happiness is an illuminating road map, grounded in hard research, to a better, happier life for us all.
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- Books & Culture, 11/01/2008, Page 44